Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
David Rich was an assistant AG and law professor, retiring in his 40s to become a full-time traveler, living in almost every country on the planet while writing dozens of travel stories. Myths of the Tribe, when religion and ethics diverge (Prometheus Books 1993) examined the influence of organized religion on ethics, 2nd ed. Published in 2019. RV the World, 2nd ed., 2018, combines his seventeen-year tour of 170 countries with lots of practical advice. In 2019 David wrote The ISIS Affair, a satire on religion and nationalism in Syria and Scribes of the Tribe. our greatest thinkers on religion and ethics. He published Antelopes, a modern-day Gulliver’s Travels, in Nov. 2020 and Sail the World?, the prequel to RV the World in October 2021.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Sail the World?, prequel to RV the World, was published last month, inspired by the author’s attempt to sail around the world: Have you wondered how it’d be like to dump the rat race to sail around the world?
Here’s how that worked out for the author, a gripping, constantly on-the-edge-of-disaster sailing adventure punctuated by the unique and wacky characters from the worldwide cruising community, all with the same wild and crazy dream.
“My 35-foot Erickson sloop Grendel was sinking in the Pacific Ocean. I’d bragged about sailing around the world, but two hours after I began, it was a disaster. I was slip-sliding around Grendel, searching for leaks, enveloped in an eerie blanket of fog with zero visibility, surrounded by invisible hazards. Glub, glub.”
So, it didn’t go exactly as planned, a reality like nothing you could envision, a comedy of errors on land and at sea. An absurdly true story and prequel to RV the World.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Everything from Beowulf to John Gardner’s Grendel and especially Hawking and Feynman.
What are you working on now?
Marketing my six books. I have two more books I may write, about RVing South America for two years, and about RVing OZ and NZ for two years.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Struggling with marketing. Just now getting started.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Writing is rewriting.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Get an editor.
What are you reading now?
Stacy Abrams, title something like “When Justice Sleeps”, not exact.
What’s next for you as a writer?
Marketing my six books. I have two more books I may write, about RVing South America for two years, and about RVing OZ and NZ for two years.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
Unabridged encyclopedia in four volumes
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